Weight and Balancing/Mass Properties Engineer III-IV

1 week ago

Arlington, Virginia, United States Kratos Unmanned Systems Full time
Job Summary

Kratos Unmanned Systems is seeking a highly skilled Weight and Balancing/Mass Properties Engineer III-IV to join our team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for performing complex engineering tasks related to weight and balance, mass properties, and aerodynamics.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement systematic methodologies for tracking and assessing vehicle weights, weight distributions, and centers of gravity.
  • Define weight, balancing, and mass properties related design requirements.
  • Provide guidance on weight and balance configuration.
  • Lead efforts to design and modify supporting apparatus for measuring weight distributions and associated centers of gravity.
  • Develop and maintain weight, balance, and mass properties accounting systems.
  • Generate weight and balance reports and maintain them in a systematic database.
  • Calculate component weights, moment arms, and mass moments of inertia from CAD models and engineering drawings.
  • Define acceptable center of gravity envelopes for external customers to ensure performance requirements are met during flight testing events.
  • Conceptual and preliminary aircraft design.
  • Air vehicle performance requirements and analysis.
  • Weight and balance estimation, tracking, and management.
  • Engine inlet and exhaust design.
  • Engine performance requirements/analysis.
  • Develop, maintain, and document aerodynamic databases.
  • Aircraft performance modeling and simulation.
  • Simulation of airframe, systems, and environment.
  • Classical aerodynamics analysis.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis.
  • Aerodynamic loads determination.
  • Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis.
  • Support various hardware/software design, test, troubleshooting, and documentation activities.
  • Flight test planning, execution, and analysis.
  • Analyses in support of requirements generation, verification, and validation.
  • Prepare formal, controlled engineering documentation.
  • Prepare and present design review material.
  • Support customer training activities.
  • Foreign and domestic travel to support test activities.
Requirements
  • Highly self-motivated.
  • Versatile and adaptable to diverse engineering problems.
  • Demonstrated strength in one or more of the listed essential job functions.
  • Demonstrated focus on customer satisfaction.
  • Demonstrated strong communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team environment.
  • Ability to travel as necessary to perform job duties.
  • Ability to maintain sensitive and confidential information as required by government standards.
  • Ability to interact effectively with peers and supervisors.
  • Ability to interact appropriately with the public when necessary.
  • Ability to adhere to workplace rules.
Preferred Qualifications
  • MATLAB and Simulink experience strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with C/C++ and Java software is strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with unmanned aircraft systems and operations is preferred.
  • Understanding of autopilot flight control design is strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with software configuration management systems is preferred.
Education and Experience
  • May be required to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance at the appropriate level (requires U.S. Citizenship).
  • Bachelor and/or Masters of Science in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
  • 8+ years of experience working in area of weight, balancing, and mass properties.
  • Experience using a mass properties database tracking weights and CGs.
  • Experience using MatLab.
Work Environment/Physical Requirements
  • Office and/or manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to stand and sit for long periods of time.
  • Ability to perform repetitive motion (keyboarding, 10-key phones).
  • Frequent outside contact with customers and suppliers.
  • May work extended hours or weekends.
  • May be required to lift up to 50 pounds in accordance with KUAS General Safety Training guidelines.
Travel Requirements
  • 10-25% May be required to support flight test activities, new business development, and customer maintenance occasionally.

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